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Jolene Allcock


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  • The Ghost Hunter on Dec. 02, 2010
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    Wow!! What more can I say, that one word pretty much sums up my feelings on this read. I loved it, absolutely loved it. I thought this was a beautiful story and well written. I won this e-copy on a blog and was a little nervous, being my first e-book I've read. I really love having a book in my hands, so I am hoping this will go to print so I can place in on my bookshelf with all my favorite reads. I was pulled into the story right off the first few lines. Christian was intensly hot. I loved the stuggle within himself as he was fighting his attraction to Ashley. From the second she walked into the pub, he was intensly aware of her. There was so much going on in this book. The odd towns people, the rumbling in Ashley's pub, the ghosts, the evil surrounding the town and the odd door in the basement. Ashley has always been different and never feeling like she belongs. When she inherits the pub from her aunt, she jumps at the chance to start over and hopefully find answers about her missing father. What she didn't expect, the ghosts she bonded with and a man she has an intense attraction to. She knows something is off about Christian and is struggling to put the pieces together. She is fighting this attraction and at the same time she wants to wring his neck. These two characters have everything I love in a romance. They want eachother, but at the same time they are both fighting their feelings as they are slinging insults and getting hot and heavy against the wall. They have a hot and cold relationship where I am anxious and needy to have them give into it. It's a sign of a great read for me, when I can't stop reading and am so invested in these characters that they have me on the edge of the seat guessing where they are going to go and what they are going to do next. I was in equal parts frustrated with both Christian and Ashley at different parts of the story. I wanted to knock their heads together so they could see what was right in front of them. Devon was like a third wheel. He was there in the sidelines. I liked him and liked his character, but felt like he kept getting in the way. The town and other characters...Devon, Camile, Rose, the ghosts and even the Demon in the basement really rounded the story out. I was a little sad to see Devon's demise, though I didn't want him with Ashley, I had a lot of love for him and his sexy arse :) Overall, amazing read. Loved it and I loved how I was sucked into the story feeling just as sexually frustrated as these characters
  • Cattitude on Jan. 18, 2011
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    This was a cute fun read. I thought the storyline was unique and different. The story is about a cat named Belle and her human owner Max. Max is headstrong and the man in his family. After his father's death, at the age of 12 Max took over the company and took over as head of the family. He is the type who makes all the decisons and is the one in charge. Max rescued Belle and the two had a fun home life. Belle is a cat and is stubborn and is used to getting her own way, until Caroline moves in. This is when things get interesting, Caroline is money hungry and insecure. After she found out her late husband was broke, she pushed him off a cliff and now has set her eyes on Max. Belle being very intuitive, knows there is something off about Caroline and takes every opportunity to piss her off. Caroline has had enough and can't get through to Max with his cat in the way and Carolines next decision is what starts this story. I loved reading about Belle's struggle with Scorcha's human body and it was so fun to see Belle keep her stubborn personality and her high and mighty attitude. It was heartwarming to watch her struggle with her feelings for Max. She was having strange feelings she wasn't quite understanding and anxious to get back to her cat body. Max is instantly attracted to Belle and at several points in the story noticed how much her personality was like his missing cat's. This story was told through several points of view. Belle the cat and Bell the human, Scrocha(the down on her luck physic who feels unloved, and the one who switches bodies with Belle) Caroline(villan #1), Phil(villan #2's brother), and the little outcast girl Gwen who lives down the road. We also have somewhat of a secondary romance between Max's sister and Phil. I really liked Phil, he was dealing with inner turmoil on realizing what kind of person his half brother turns out to be. Ted, Max's brother was also part of this story and he was a fun character to watch grow with confidence as Max hands over the keys to the company. The two characters who I think overcame so much in the story was the little girl Gwen and Scorcha. Scorcha had a rough life and only wanted to be loved. As she was adjusting to being in the cat body she meets Gwen who is an outcast in her family and at school. The bond these two shared was really heartwarming. This was a feel good story and was happy to see how everyone came into their own
  • Under Mr. Nolan's Bed (An Erotic / Erotica Menage Romance) on June 29, 2011
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    *Warning* This is an adult story with very graphic sexual encounters. Please read with an open mind This is my second Selena Kitt read and was blown away with her writing style. She manages to pull you into the story and not only gives her erotic writing sexual imagery by the reader but her stories also hold depth. This book is overloaded with sex scenes but they aren't dull and each encounter is different and unique and keeps me guessing how the characters are going to interact next. I was really enjoying the first half of this book, the heroine was 18 but I wasn't quite sure how old the hero was, but I was assuming he was in his 40's. This is a taboo romance and was shocked towards the end even though I had a feeling it was coming. Given the behavior of the heroines best friend I could see the story going in that direction but was still a little shocked when it did. The ending actually blew me away because that did take me by surprise. I would actually like to know how all that played out, and felt like I was left with some questions on how the characters were left feeling after the big revelation. Just to put this out there, this book does feature incest. If by my saying that word makes you cringe, don't read this. I really think you need to have an open mind and take it in as a story being told of a 18 year old girl exploring her sexuality. A different take on a erotic romance, filled with an abudence of sex scenes with a story woven in between.
  • Straight to Hell on Feb. 02, 2012
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    Lilith Straight is a 35 year old Woman who is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. A newly divorced, now single mom, who has also taken on the role of guardian to her feisty and independent 11 year old niece and her free loading stepsister. This would be all well and good if she had her old life when she was married and living in her big house. Now, all she has is a small crowded townhouse in a seedy part of town, out of work and struggling to make ends meet. Could things be any worse? She could get hit by a car and die.......and that's exactly what happens. I have to say, the way Lilith died was very amusing. Warning to everyone out there, if you see an elderly lady walk out of a porn shop, carrying a brown paper bag which happens to have a rip down the side and sporting a dildo that's playing peek a boo. Laugh quietly at the sight, but if you follow after her and try to take a picture with your phone to send to your stepsister. Please, watch where you are walking and for goodness sake stay off the road. You never know, you could get hit by a car! Lilith's life ends, but thanks to a centuries old curse that has been passed down through the women in her family, Lilith now finds herself as a Succubus and must now answers to the whims of her her new boss Miss Spry and her assistant Mr. Clerk. When I first started this story, I felt it moved a little slow. Part of me wanted to set it down and move onto something else, but I stuck with it. I'm glad I did because the story picked up about midway and really took off. Lilith's character was defiant and she was independent. I wanted so much to see her come out on top and to stick it to Miss Spry. She was dealing with so much and I feel like life just dumped on her, but she was doing the best she could. All of a sudden she's something else entirely. It was interesting watching her struggle to keep her humanity all the while reveling in the demon side of her and what it could provided for her family. She was given tasks to tempt others souls and Miss Spry tested her cooperation on several occasions. Lilith knew she needed to do what she was told, but she also wanted to do what was right and felt disgusted in what she was doing and it was wrong. She was in an emotional roller coaster and I definitely felt her struggles I really enjoyed Darcy's character and these to had some really good chemistry, but I wanted to see more of him and more of that chemistry. The scene these two shared on her couch, even though things weren't as they seemed, it just felt like a tease. So, hopefully there will be more to come of these two. I feel like Darcy has his own struggles to overcome and though I don't know if his feelings for Lilith are strong or it's just in his demon nature, I'm hoping for more page time with him in the next book. Overall, it was an OK read for me. I struggled through the beginning but was really enjoying it towards the end. Lilith had a really tough decision to make at the end and thought it was sad to see the collateral, even though she was in mom mode first and formost. I understood this, though I wished it would of played out differently. It definitely sets the tone for book two and I'm intrigued how things will play out next